Weren't / Aren't people saying the same thing about the Aura? A great, even award-winning product can be tripped up by a variety of things. No reason not to bring it here. In fact, now Bob should have even more reasons to just bring it here as-is, imported from China if they indeed do have some extra capacity!
I'd seen this news a week or two back on some obscure Asian news site - I don't know enough about the Chinese market to explain it, except perhaps that the market is very limited given that the average monthly salary in Guangzhou was 100 US dollars when I was there last year, and the PA is expensive even by US standards.